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Article: Perfect Timing
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 11, 1992
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When Edward Stone of Bowie retired as chief landscape architect
for the U.S. Forest Service a few years ago, he was just a simple
"wood butcher" fascinated with his grandfather's old tool box. Then
members of a historical society asked him to make some boxes that
they could decorate with stencils, and the next thing he knew, he
was a clockmaker. "One thing sort of led to another," he says.
Stone makes detailed reproductions of early 19th-century wall
and shelf clocks. His specialties are "banjos," so called because of
their shape, and "pillar and scroll" clocks, a traditional New
England shelf style. Both are delicate and ornate, with lots of
gilding and images that have to be ...
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